Born in Whitfield Town,
Kingston, Burrell moved to
Birmingham, England at the age of five before returning to Jamaica as a teenager. His first production was
Sugar Minott's "More Dogs To The Bone" in 1984, starting the Kings & Lions record label in the same year. By 1989, Burrell had founded the
Exterminator (later
Xterminator) label, which in the early 1990s released records by
Ninjaman,
Ini Kamoze,
Admiral Tibet,
Cocoa Tea,
Beres Hammond and
Johnny Osbourne. Burrell's son Kareem followed him into music production and released the
Project X mixtape in 2012 to celebrate his father's birthday, and produced the
Living Heart album later in the year, with contributions from Beres Hammond,
Richie Spice, and
Lutan Fyah. ==References==